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DIY Money | Personal Finance, Budgeting, Debt, Savings, Investing
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Welcome back to another edition of DIY Money.
DIY money.
Allie Howard, we are going to get right into it today and go into a great email that we got. It's actually a story that we want to tell and kind of share with everybody. But before that, let's do some housekeeping odds and ends. This episode, all episodes sponsored by Jewel Financial, J-O-U-L-E financial.com. Reach out to us if you have a complex situation or just want to chat with someone, learn a little bit more about your financial situation, and we see if we can maybe help you along your journey. Also, we have some other great sponsors, so I'll pause for them now. And make sure you're sending us those questions. Podcast at DIYMoney.org. That's podcast at DIYMoney.org. Send us your questions. If we use it on the show, you'll get a $25 Amazon gift card.
Allie, we have such a cool story today from Isaiah. I'm going to let you read it on the show.
Yes, and I'll also caveat because we just talked about questions. We don't often do this. We look for audio questions a minute or less. So if you're just joining us, first of all, welcome. We're glad you're here. Keep in mind that ideally we'd like to receive things as an audio question and we'll respond to it. I got this email the other day and I was kind of blown away. It is remarkable to see the ways that this podcast has touched people. But I think there's also elements of this story that was really inspiring to me and I know would be really inspiring to some of the clients that we talk with or some of the other people we've interacted with on the show before. And just feeling like, how am I ever going to get out of this?
So I thought we would read it and kind of kick it around. We were going to just read it at the beginning. And then as we started talking about it, we were like, yeah, that's going to be a 45-minute podcast if we read that and then answer a question. So on this special edition of DIY Money, we're going to share this story.
Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention? Stop what you're doing and listen.
And I'll read it. It's from Isaiah. And Isaiah says, Hi, DIY money team. I'm a relatively young doctor who entered a practice six years ago, fresh out of training, drowning in debt and living off credit cards. My first job was purely incentive based. And after a year in the practice, I further compounded our, my wife and I's, debt with an end in sight. We were living well, but not lavishly. And we were on the debt downward spiral. Thank you so much. Budgeting sounds restrictive until you realize how liberating it can be. Witnessing the trend of credit card debt, family member debt, student loan debt, and car debt all decline while seeing our investment savings go up has been huge for us professionally and personally.
Thank you again for your profound, simple advice when I needed it.
I just had a moment.
Wow.
I don't even know where to start with that. That's pretty powerful. And that's just such huge, amazing praise. Obviously, we may have given the information, but Isaiah and his wife, it sounds like, were the ones that did the hard work and really buckled down and did all of this. And it's just phenomenal. So, Allie, I'm going to let you start off because you read this and you were like, this is amazing. We have to put this on the podcast. So I'm going to let you kick it off.
Yeah. I mean, I think I'll start by saying I know there are people out there that maybe listen to this. This might be the first episode they're ever listening to with this like weight on their shoulders. Like they're looking at the balances continuing to run up. They're continuing month after month to run into the running out of money, like having the end of the month before you. What is it hitting the end of the I don't know.
Running out of money before you run out of money.
There it is. Thank you so much.
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